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Month: June 2016

There is no doubt that having a responsive web design for your website is extremely important for today’s web design point of view, as there is more demand now for responsive than ever before. With sales for mobile devices on the rise, people want to be able to visit your website while they’re “on-the-go,” thus the importance of having a mobile-friendly website. This article will discuss what responsive web design is and a few of the many advantages of responsive website design.

Doing your best work requires outsourcing. Entrepreneurs are ultimately can-do people — do-it-yourselfers. But this perspective can backfire sometimes. If you’re so do-it-yourself that you get slowed down in tasks that aren’t part of your expertise, or if you spend too much time on tasks that don’t directly generate income, you might be doing your business more harm than good.

According to KBTX, several Texas A&M students recently reported receiving calls from scammers claiming they committed tax fraud and have a warrant out for their arrest. This is a serious issue called “phone spoofing” in which phone scammers use software to mask their real identities by displaying a fake telephone number. Phone spoofing is a tool used by fraudsters to mislead people into thinking the call is from a reputable business or person. There are even times when the number the scammer uses already belongs to a real person.

When communication between parties takes place over the internet, there is always risks. If a customer is sending payment instructions to your store using your online facility, the very last thing you ever want to happen is for an attacker to be capable of intercepting, reading, manipulating or replaying the HTTP request to the online application. The consequences can be unimaginable when an attacker is able to read your session cookie, or to manipulate the payee, product or billing address, or to simply inject new html or Javascript into the markup sent in response to a user request to the store.

After the first iteration of the Apple music streaming service product met with tepid reviews and several executives brought in to revive the company’s music strategy departed, Apple is planning on sweeping changes to its year-old product. The company is altering the user interface of Apple Music to make it more intuitive to use, according to people familiar with the produced who asked to not be identified because the plans aren’t public. There is also plans by Apple to better integrate its streaming and downloading businesses and expand its online radio service, the people said. The reboot is expected to be introduced at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June.

On Tuesday, April 26, Chobani CEO Hamid Ulukaya said that he would award his full-time employees an ownership stake in the privately held company. The awards total around 10 percent of the company’s value, but will only be worth something in the event of an IPO or sale of the company. According to a letter to the staff by Ululkaya, “This isn’t a gift. It’s a mutual promise to work together with a shared purpose and responsibility. To continue to create something special and of lasting value.”

There is a surprising number of technologies that define life today which got their start in the 1980s. Let’s take a walk down memory lane and see just how many of these technologies have evolved into what they are today.